Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?



sys49152@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other
comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names.

apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't
handle dependencies as well, leaving me to install software by hand
with 'dpkg -i'. Sometimes, it can't even find the package at all.

Now it wants me to 'apt-get autoremove' telling me that "The
following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:" and then provides a long list containing predominately
packages that I use on a daily basis. It looks like apt-get is
daring me to hose my system.

I just want to find something better. I have nothing against dpkg
other than that I have to resolve the dependency issues myself. I
still run apt-get update to make sure security patches are in
place; I do wish that it was the tool I remembered it being years
ago.


Thanks for the tips!
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:24:36 -0600 Celejar <celejar@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
sys49152@xxxxxxxxxxxx dijo:
...

For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have
been
finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so.
I am
beginning to suspect that apt-get is becoming aged and
neglected.
Is there a newer/more modern package tool that has been getting
more development attention that I should be using instead?
...

But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be
using aptitude.
I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new
stuff. After a
graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll
have to delete
some of the old stuff. Bah.
"Note that aptitude is the preferred program for package
management
>from console both for package installations and package or system
upgrades."

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-
aptitude

Celejar
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"It is important to understand that the higher level package management tools such as |aptitude| or |dselect| rely on |apt| which, itself, relies on |dpkg| to manage the packages in the system."

As referd by Cellejar lookin on:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html

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